"Don't be so loud, brat!" Fukasaku said as he kicked Naruto. Not hard enough to knock him out, but hard enough so that the message would get across.

"Och!" Naruto said, bringing his hands up to his head. Fukasaku hopped off and landed in between Naruko and Naruto. He looked up at him and could only stare at his features. His missing eye, his horn made from metal, and this sense of death that surrounded his very being. It was enough to make Fukasaku freeze.

"W-What happened to you, boy? You look like you've been through the 3rd Great Ninja War!" Fukasaku questioned him, his voice filled with concern and worry

"Why should I tell you? I don't even know who you are," Naruto replied, still rubbing his head

"My name is Fukasaku, one of the two Great Toad Sages! But you can call me Jiji," Fukasaku replied, raising a hand and smiling.

"Okay, 'Jiji', what are you doing here?" Naruko asked, walking up to the toad. Fukasaku turned around and glared at her.

"You can call me Lord Fukasaku, got it, youngin'?" Naruko shivered at the sound of his voice. It scared her, almost like being scolded by your grandpa. But as this was going on, the Kumo-nin that got sent flying by Fukasaku managed to get himself off the ground. Taking several deep breaths, he held his wakizashi in a tight grip.

His jaw quivered as he shook in rage, "If I'm gonna die.. I'm gonna take as many as I can with me... before I'm sent to hell!" he said, vanishing as he was pushing all his remaining chakra into his blade. He appeared above Naruto, his eyes sparking lightning as his sword grew to a massive size, all the while his blade looked like a lightning bolt attached to a hilt. "NINJA ART: LIGHTING BLADE OF GOD!" he screamed at the top of his lungs.

Fukasaku heard it as he turned around to see the blade just inches away from Naruto's head. But before he could do anything, he saw Naruto spin on one of his heels to face the Kumo-nin.

Then, just a single sentence was uttered by Naruto. A single sentence that would forever be burned into Fukasaku's mind.

"Manga Mimicry: Kaiwan Style: Devil Lance," is what Naruto said as he thrust his right hand at the Kumo-nin's chest. His hand was flat with all his fingers extended. Each and every finger was stiff and poised. Both the Kumo-nin and Naruto wondered the same thing as their techniques got closer to each other: 'Who's gonna make it first?!'

Each second felt like an eternity. Eternity felt like agony. The agony of impending death. With impending death... came the outcome. Blood gushed into the air as the lightning bolt disappeared. The crimson liquid of life fell down Naruto's body as the only 3 other people looked on at the outcome of the clash.

Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze...

Had beaten the Lighting Blade of God. Naruto's hand, while his fingers bent at fixable angles, had pierced through the Kumo-nin's chest. Blood flowed down Naruto's arm like a red waterfall. The Kumo-nin coughed up blood that splattered onto Naruto's face, who was smiling.

"Y-You... d-demon," the Kumo-nin coughed up, dropping his sword

"Thank-you... for helping me. Now I know just how much further I need to go," Naruto replied in a hushed tone as he pulled out his arm and hand from his chest. The man dropped to the ground and fell onto his back, a giant, gaping hole in his chest facing toward the sky as he whispered: "I hope you got away... Omoi."

The Kumo-nin then closed his eyes as Naruto stood there, his half-broken fingers hanging at his side and his smile fading.

"Naruto!" Fukasaku screamed as he hopped to Naruto's side and grabbed his hand, "What were you thinking?!"

"Ehh? Oh this?" Naruto pointed at his fingers, the same set of fingers that Fukasaku was currently holding, "I had to do something,"

"You foolish boy! We're going home, now!" Fukasaku ordered, pulling Naruto's hand. Naruto fell to the ground, amazed at the old toad's strength as he was dragged across the ground. "You too, young lady!"

"O-Okay, Lord Fukasaku," Naruko quickly gave him an answer and started to follow him. Hinata, meanwhile, stood there. She was shaking in fear and disgust at the sight of the Kumo-nin's corpse.

Hinata felt like vomiting, quickly turning away while covering her mouth with her hands. Her knees buckled and she could hear her teeth chattering. The giant hole and the massive pool of blood. It would never leave her mind.

"Hinata! Come on, let's go," Naruko said, snapping Hinata out of her daze as the blonde grabbed her arm and started dragging her like Fukasaku was doing to Naruto.

"KUSHINA! MINATO! I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU TWO!" Fukasaku kicked the door off its hinges, walking inside with Naruto in his hands

"Could you please put me down now?" Naruto asked, looking down at him

"Oh, sure," Fukasaku set Naruto gently down on the hard-wood floor. Naruto held his hand as he looked at Naruko and Hinata, both of whom stepped over the door and walked to him.

"Bro?" Naruko asked, the said person turning their head to look at them

"What?" Naruto replied, turning back around and looking at his fingers. He grabbed them with his other hand, counting in his head.

"W-What happened... back there, I mean?" Naruko then heard the sound of bones snapping and popping. She winched and cringed at the sound, even flinching. Naruto then shook his hand before moving it, making sure everything was in order.

"What are you talking about? Nothing happened," Naruto answered his sister's question, "but what the hell were you doing?"

"W-What do you mean?" Naruko stuttered

"Why the hell were you on a midnight play-date with... what's your name again?" Naruto tilted his body to look at Hinata, who was cowering behind Naruko.

"H-Hinata," the blue-haired girl replied

"Yeah, her," Naruto pointed. Naruko then gave a sigh, a sigh of relief is what it sounded like to Naruto, but he wasn't too sure.

"We've been going on weekly play-dates for the last few months," Naruko said without hesitation

"Okay, but why didn't you tell mom and dad?"

"B-Because they wouldn't have approved our friendship,"

"I'm friends with Sasuke," Naruto commented. Naruko was about to say something, but she couldn't think of anything as her mouth was still open. She was still thinking of something to say when Naruto was picked off the ground and being smothered to death by their mother, who was dressed in a pair of red-PJ's.

"NARUTO! WHAT HAPPENED? HOW'S YOUR HAND?!" Kushina was hugging Naruto closely as she grabbed his hand and inspected the small cuts and bruises on his hand. She started going through one-handed signs when she was amazed at the sight of steam rolling off his hand. Kushina stopped her hand-signs to see Naruto's wounds slowly healing and the bruises fading away, 'N-No way, t-they were there a second ago! B-But how?! The Uzumaki bloodline does have fast healing... b-but nothing that fast,' Kushina thought.

"Uhhh, maahh?" Naruto managed to say as Kushina looked down to see that she had put him in an arm-lock with his neck being pinched in between her elbow and her ribs.

"OHMYKAMI! SORRY!" Kushina dropped him in a panic, his head hitting the floor. He then feigned pain, pretending to be injured from his fall.

"OW! MOM! THAT HURT!" Naruto screamed, giving her crocodile-tears, which she bought

"I'm sorry, Naruto!" Kushina then wrapped him in another hug, this time making sure she wasn't killing him.

"I-It's fine, mom," Naruto said as he escaped from the hug, now I'm gonna go to bed *yawn* I'm really tired,"

"Okay, sweetie. Good-night," Kushina said, watching her son walk up the stairs.

When he was gone, Kushina looked at her daughter and frowned, "Mind explaining to me why you were out so late young lady?" she asked, sending a shiver down Naruko's spine

"I-I can explain!" Naruko said, raising her hands into the air, "Hinata! Help me!"

"W-W-What?" Hinata stuttered. She then vanished in a yellow-flash and appeared in the living room with Jiraiya, Minato, Fukasaku, and Shima.

"Sorry about doing that, but I didn't want you to get in the way of my wife's rage," Minato said, setting Hinata on the couch. They then felt and heard a loud crash near the front door, making Jiraiya and Minato sigh.

"One of these days, she's gonna kill them," Minato mumbled, rubbing the bridge of his nose.